Synonyms for enlarge
ɛnˈlɑrdʒen·large

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1. enlarge

   To add is to increase by adjoining or uniting: in distinction from multiply, which is to increase by repeating. To augment a thing is to increase it by any means, but this word is seldom used directly of material objects; we do not augment a house, a farm, a nation, etc. We may enlarge a house, a farm, or an empire, extend influence or dominion, augment riches, power or influence, attach or annex a building to one that it adjoins or papers to the document they refer to, annex a clause or a codicil, affix a seal or a signature, annex a territory, attach a condition to a promise. A speaker may amplify a discourse by a fuller treatment throughout than was originally planned, or he may append or subjoin certain remarks without change of what has gone before. We cast up or sum up an account, though add up and make up are now more usual expressions.

   Synonyms:
   add, adjoin, affix, amplify, annex, append, attach, augment, cast up, extend, increase, join on, make up, subjoin, sum up

   Antonyms:
   abstract, deduct, diminish, dissever, lessen, reduce, remove, subtract, withdraw

   Preposition:
   Other items are to be added to the account.

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1. enlarge

   Synonyms:
   amplify, expand, augment, broaden, swell, stretch out, extend, stretch, dilate, increase

   Antonyms:
   narrow, lessen, contract, restrict, diminish, curtail, reduce

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1. Enlargeverb

   Synonyms:
   To increase, extend, expand, spread, amplify, augment, magnify. See Increase.

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1. enlargeverb

   make larger

   "She enlarged the flower beds"

   Synonyms:
   exposit, elaborate, expatiate, dilate, flesh out, expound, expand, lucubrate, blow up, magnify

2. blow up, enlarge, magnifyverb

   make large

   "blow up an image"

   Synonyms:
   go ballistic, lucubrate, expatiate, puff out, exposit, detonate, have kittens, flip one's wig, embroider, puff up, expound, flesh out, puff, hit the roof, explode, throw a fit, combust, flip one's lid, magnify, expand, dilate, amplify, pad, embellish, lard, fly off the handle, set off, lose one's temper, overstate, blow a fuse, hit the ceiling, blow up, exaggerate, aggrandise, have a fit, dramatise, elaborate, inflate, aggrandize, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, dramatize, blow one's stack

3. enlargeverb

   become larger or bigger

   Synonyms:
   exposit, elaborate, expatiate, dilate, flesh out, expound, expand, lucubrate, blow up, magnify

4. elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilateverb

   add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

   "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"

   Synonyms:
   work out, refine, fat, expound, fatten, exposit, dilate, fill out, spread out, extend, amplify, blow up, rarify, lucubrate, set forth, fatten up, thrive, elaborate, magnify, plump, expatiate, inflate, expand, fatten out, flesh out, complicate, plump out, boom, flourish, distend, round

Matched Categories

1. • Grow
   • Increase
   • Photography

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1. make bigger

   Submitted by anonymous on December 18, 2019  

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1. enlargeverb

   Synonyms:
   increase, augment, extend, expand, magnify, amplify, make larger, make greater

2. enlargeverb

   Synonyms:
   expatiate, dilate, descant, speak at length, launch out

3. enlargeverb

   Synonyms:
   increase, swell, grow, extend, expand, grow larger

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1. enlargeverb

   Synonyms:
   magnify, amplify, augment, expand, develop, increase, extend, swell, dilate, descant, launch out, expatiate, ennoble, broaden

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1. List of paraphrases for "enlarge":

   expand, broaden, extend, widen, enlargement, expanding, magnify, expansion, increase

How to pronounce enlarge?

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How to use enlarge in a sentence?

1. Mary Howitt:

   God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children

2. Michael Rawlins:

   We'd have to enlarge ourselves hugely because we'd have to evaluate all new drugs. Not only that, I don't know how it would be paid for.

3. James Wilson:

   Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind.

4. Grace Mugabe:

   There are many people, including whites, running wildlife conservancies and no one questions their status. Those settlers at Manzou will have to leave. If they are genuine farmers who want land suitable for farming, then they should approach relevant offices. i might have a small fist. But when it comes to fighting, I will put stones inside to enlarge it. Do not doubt my capabilities.

5. Zep Lee:

   Definitely, we will continue to enlarge our fleet and increase our number of aircraft in the future, growth in the number of our self-owned aircraft will be in the double-digits next year.